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Notes for Robert Green Tanner:
TANNER, GREEN 1810-1862 COFFEE
Green Tanner was born in Montgomery [now Emanuel] County in 1810, a son of John Tanner and wife Mary Douglas. His wife was Elmina Hall, born 1818 in Burke County, daughter of Hardy Hall Sr., and sister of Hardy Hall [Vol. 2]. Green Tanner moved to Telfair County soon after marriage and settled in the portion south of the Ocmulgee River, which was the portion made into Coffee County in 1854. He moved about the same time his brother, Elijah Tanner [Vol. 4], and Wilson Tanner [Vol. 3], had already settled on or near the then county line between Telfair and Appling Counties [but which area on both sides of the line became Coffee County in 1854]. He served in the Indian War in Capt. N. J. Holton's Company of Appling County Militia in 1838. Green Tanner died at his home in eastern Coffee County in 1862, his will was probated June 02, 1862, in Coffee Court of Ordinary, and named his wife, Elmina to be exectrix. He bequeathed $200.00 each to his minor children; Mary, Lucinda, Delilah, "to equalize them with those who got land", no other children named in will.
SOURCE: Huxford's POWG ... Vol. 5.
Georgia, Coffee County
Will of Green Tanner
From the Coffee County Probate Court
Submitted by Melody Moore McCook
State of Georgia, Coffee County:
In the name of God Amen I Green Tanner of said State and County being of advanced age but of sound mind and memory that I must shortly depart this life, deem it right & proper both as respects my family ___ myself that I should make a disposition of the property which Kind providence has bl____ I do therefore make this my last Will & Testament hereby revoking and annulling al_____ by me heretofore made.
ITEM 1, I desire & direct that my body be buried in a decent and Christain like manner suitable _____ circumstance and station(?) in life my Soul I trust shall return to rest with God wh____ it as I hope for Salvation through the attonment of the blessed Lord and Savior Jesus _____
ITEM 2, I desire & direct that all my just debts be paid without delay by Executor he _____ named & appointed.
ITEM 3, I want my negro boy London & Lucy & Elyce to stay in the _____til Eighteen Hundred seventy to. ___to___ the minor heirs, & then sold & equally divided amongst the heir ____
ITEM 4, I want my three children Manning(?) and Lucinda and Delila to have Two hundred _____ a piece to make them Equal with those that got land.
ITEM 5, I don't want the stock cattle sold. I want them Equally divided amongst my heir ____
ITEM 6, I want the widow and minor heirs to have two head of work horses __as she may ____- out of my stock of horses to put to her use.
ITEM 7, I reserve fifty head of hogs for the use of the widow and minor heirs & the balance ____ my hogs & horses sold and equally divided amongst the heirs.
ITEM 8, I want my wife and minor heirs to have all my plantation tools house hold and kit______ furnitures for their own proper use and benefits
ITEM 9, I hereby constituted & appoint my loving wife Guardian of the persons and proper _____ my Said minor heirs.
ITEM 10, I hereby constitute and appoint my loving wife Executor of this my last will and testament this February the 3 1862
Green x Tanner
(his mark)
Signed Sealed & declared and published by Green Tanner as his last will and testament, in the presence of us the undersigned who subscribed our names hereto in presents of said T_____ his Special Instance and _____ and in the present of each other this February the 3 1862
Benjamin Thomas
Tolbert Little
S.P. Nettles
Georgia, Coffee County
Before me A M Lean ordinary of Said County, came in person Benjamin Th_____ Tolbert Little who being duly sworn depose and say Green Tanner deceased late of this ______ signed sealed published declared the said instrument as his last will and testament vo____ freely without ______ and that they signed said will as witnesses and saw S. P. Nett_____ the same as witness also in the presence of said Green Tanner and in the precense ____ other.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this I declare
1862
AM Lean ordinary
Benjamin x Thomas (his mark)
Tolbert Little
SOURCE: Melody Moore McCook <mmccook@bellsouth.net>
<http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/coffee/wills/j6200001.txt>
January 03, 2004
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